The link has been removed as part of a European Court of Justice ruling which forces the search engine to take down links to "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant" information. Read the full list of affected stories here.

Kyle Ivison, aged 17 at the time, was held responsible for a crimewave of more than 120 offences in the town of Clitheroe, Lancs.

Ivison filmed himself smashing up 21 cars, vandalised four benches installed in a cemetary by grieving relatives and caused £1,400 worth of damage to church windows, alongside receiving a ban from his local supermarket.

His father reported Ivison to the police for smashing the family home.

The link will no longer appear in searches made through google.co.uk as the result of an anonymous request for the information to be removed. However, the story remains available to read on the Telegraph's website.

Over a quarter of a million requests have been made in total to the search engine asking for links to information be removed from Google's European site branches.

While Google does not disclose the identity of the complainant, applications must supply identity verification to prove the links relate either to themselves, or that they have the legal authority to act on the claimant’s behalf.